Did you grow up with a piano in your home? Do you have one now?

We had one but it was never tuned so…I never really learned. I have a console piano in my living room as an adult.

Yes. an upright Mom got as a child. She played in our home, but nobody else.
No, I do not have a piano.

Upright growing up, now have a Casio portable keyboard.

No, we did not have space in our mansion. That was all taken up by torture equipment.

I didn’t have one in my family’s house, but my grandmother taught me how to play the piano every time I visited her

I did grow up with one. We got one when I was about 5. I started lessons at that age too, and continued them until I was about 14. You would expect that I’d be very good given that, but I am terrible! In all those years I never learned to play well.

In college I made a friend who played piano, but had never taken lessons, and he introduced to me how he learned music: by ear. He’d learn the chords of a song first and then slowly build in the details. This is as opposed to the way I had always played off of sheet music. He was really good. I started trying his way and I have made so much more progress now, and find it so much more fun too.

I don’t own a piano now but I do own a very nice Yamaha keyboard with weighted keys, feels pretty close to the real deal.

We didn’t have a piano at home when I was young. We do now have an expensive (and mostly unused) keyboard.

My husband did have a piano in the house when he was young. His father was a very good pianist and my husband took lessons for many years. His father sold the piano in later life and my husband was very upset. He would have liked to keep it.

Yes, in most of the houses I grew up in. I have a weighted keyboard now.

yes to both questions.

No, but I had an electric organ. The memory goes way back to when I was 4 or 5. For some reason my parents decided that it would be good for me to learn to play the organ. My kindergarten also has a small class for that. I didn’t remember what I learned back then. What I really enjoyed was fooling around with friends and listening to the organ’s built-in music. Then I started school and I didn’t have time for more practice. The organ was abandoned, stuffed into the attic, and sold.

Yes and it’s still in my parents’ house. I took lessons, but I was never enthusiastic. I do not have one now. My ex has an electronic keyboard. I don’t know if any of the kids play it.

I had a metalophone and a synthesizer, if that counts.

When I was a teenager. It was an upright. When I was very young I took piano for a short time, and practiced at a neighbors house. My sister studied piano in school for a few years. I never heard her play. That’s odd to me as I think about it.

My maternal grandparents always had a baby grand. I seriously thought about taking it after both of my grandparents had passed away. It seems like such a luxurious thing to have. They always lived in NY aparatments (suburbs and city depending what years you look at) but still had the space for it somehow.

My grandparents had an old upright in their parlor. I took piano lessons in middle school. The lady that taught the lessons was a very nice lady but probably in her mid 70’s. The lessons were in her house. I wasn’t into it because the songs that I was learning to play weren’t songs I could identify with. I had no idea whether or not I was playing them correctly. I got where I wasn’t practicing at all between lessons (lessons were once a week). I ended up quitting because there’s no use taking lessons if the only playing you’re doing is the once a week lesson. I think at that time, lessons were $5 each (this is around late 1970’s).

So to answer the question, we didn’t have a piano at home but my grandparents had one, so no I didn’t have one but yes I was exposed to one my whole childhood.

Yes, we had a mini-grand. My mom and my younger brother were the ones who could really play it; I have only the most rudimentary piano skills. I never took lessons or anything like that.

I had, and still have, an accordion. It is packed safely away somewhere.

No, we did not have one as a child, but my grandmother did. We do have one now.